Politics and ethnicity : a comparative study / / Joseph Rudolph

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910815720903321
• Autore: Rudolph Joseph R (Joseph Russell), <1942->
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: New York, : Palgrave Macmillan, 2006
• ISBN: 1-281-36577-7; 9786611365776; 1-4039-8357-7
• Edizione: [1st ed.]
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (XV, 254 p.)
• Collana: Perspectives in comparative politics
• Disciplina: 305.8
• Soggetti: Ethnicity - Political aspects; Ethnic relations - Political aspects; Politics and culture; Political anthropology
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. [229]-246) and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Cover -- Contents -- List of Tables -- Series Editor Foreword -- Author's Foreword -- Acknowledgments -- One: Ethnicity and Politics in the Contemporary World -- Part 1 France: Ethnopolitics in the Developed West -- Two: The Setting of Politics in the Advanced Democratic World -- Three: Ethnoterritorial Politics in France -- Four: Ethnoclass Politics in France: Multiculturalism in an Assimilationist Republic -- Five: Ethnopolitics in France in a Comparative Perspective -- Part 2 Czechoslovakia: Ethnopolitics in Postcommunist Europe -- Six: The Setting of Politics in Postcommunist Europe -- Seven: Ethnoterritorial Politics in Czechoslovakia and the Creation and Dissolution of a State -- Eight: Ethnoclass Politics in Former Czechoslovakia -- Nine: Ethnopolitics in Former Czechoslovakia in a Comparative Perspective -- Part 3 Nigeria: Ethnopolitics in the Multinational Third World -- Ten: The Setting of Politics in the Developing World -- Eleven: Ethnopolitics in Nigeria -- Twelve: Ethnopolitics in Nigeria in a Comparative Perspective -- Conclusion -- Thirteen: Reflections on the Management of Ethnopolitical Conflict in the Contemporary World -- Notes -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T ; -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Z.
• Sommario/riassunto: This book offers a brief, broad, comparative study of ethnic politics that places ethnic conflict within the context of particular political systems. To develop these themes, they are explored by comparing and contrasting the experiences of France, Czechoslovakia and its subsequent division, and Nigeria.